God's Pauper

I was received this book when I was 8 years old and until now still I read and I can reed over and over ♾He changed my life this book isn’t just book it’s touching your heart deeply 🙏☀️⛪️😇

Kazantzakis is one of greece's great writersAlthough agnostic his writings inspired the spiritualIn God's pauper he dramatises the story of st Francis of AssisiPutting himself at the centre of the eternal struggleBetween spirit and fleshI bought this for a friend although info not read the book in English

This book was recommended to me twenty years ago by a friend. I loved it then, and love it now. It really captures the spirit of St Francis, as written in the words of his long-suffering companion Brother Leo.

Very good read not finish yet

So! what we have here is a mad St Francis! He was one hilarious 'go for it' monk, traipsing around with Bro Leo who is more like his lap dog! Going around dancing in the village squares, getting stoned for it (rocks) and beaten up by brigands for declaring: 'The New Madness'. Living in caves, and insisting on walking barefoot! Quite mad

Knowing little about Kazantzakis, I bought this book expecting a standard saint's life. Instead, I found myself reading the story of a man who comes across as more than a little crazy and certainly not transcendentally saintly. The narrative is firmly rooted in earthly things and even Francis's visions have a physicality about them which renders them far from mystical. This lack of overt spirituality, however, is not detrimental to the novel, for indeed it is intended to be a novel, not a book of religious instruction or inspiration.Perhaps it's greatest strength is the soothing cyclical nature of the story. One journey follows another, illness often strikes with similar symptoms, hunger alternates with the occasional discovery of a scrap of bread, just as the seasons punctuate the tale with their harsh extremities of heat and biting cold. The more one reads, the more familiar the pattern becomes and out of the human suffering described there arises something which transcends it - a kind of certainty that the pattern will repeat itself and a familiarity which is gently comforting.

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